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 2  aliases:
 3    - Technology Creating a New Human - The Alchemical Roots of Transhumanist Ideas
 4  citekey: Konsa2021
 5  tags:
 6    - bibnote
 7  ---
 8  
 9  > [!book] Bibliography
10  > Konsa, Kurmo. 2021. “Technology Creating a New Human: The Alchemical Roots of Transhumanist Ideas.” _Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore_ 81 (April): 15–32. [https://doi.org/10.7592/FEJF2021.81.konsa](https://doi.org/10.7592/FEJF2021.81.konsa).  
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12  >[!meta]- Metadata  
13  > **FirstAuthor**:: Konsa, Kurmo  
14  ~  
15  > **Title**:: Technology Creating a New Human: The Alchemical Roots of Transhumanist Ideas  
16  > **Year**:: 2021  
17  > **Citekey**:: Konsa2021  
18  > **itemType**:: journalArticle  
19  > **Journal**:: *Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore*  
20  > **Volume**:: 81  
21  > **Pages**:: 15-32  
22  > **DOI**:: 10.7592/FEJF2021.81.konsa
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26  >[!focus] Goal (Selection Intent):
27  >- To extract insights on digital information in relation to alchemy
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29  >[!eye] Overview
30  > - The conclusion was very vague and it didn't seem the author was against either alchemy and transhumanism
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32  ## Notes
33  - p.16 Human nature has never been defined by tools to such an extent
34  	- Alchemy in middle ages was concerned with distinguishing natural from artificial and how to integrate human nature w/ tech
35  		- discerning this distinction could be a mystifying spell in itself
36  - p.19 The 4 positions of transhumanism
37  - p.21 Roger Bacon defines 2 types of alchemy
38  - p.22 Bacon was a proponent of using alchemical elixir to prolong life span
39  - p.24 Bacon believed huge mirrors needed to be built to transmit divine emanations across long distances
40  	- See [[1610.2a2 Renaissance alchemist vs digital alchemist]] (screens as mirrors)
41  	- Bacon used "magic words" which Leary refers to as code in the context of digital alchemy
42  - p.26 [[1610.1 Transhumanism defined]] takes [[alchemy]] a step further by pushing the limits of human potential beyond natural processes through acceleration
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47  >[!sticky]+ Notes Cited
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